Season after Pentecost

Friday in Season after Pentecost

Friday, July 30, 2027

Semicontinuous (Track 1)

FIRST READING

Joshua 23:1-16

Verse 1. A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years, Verse 2. he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said, Verse 3. “and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you. Verse 4. See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea. Verse 5. The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you. Verse 6. Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left. Verse 7. So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them. Verse 8. Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. Verse 9. The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. Verse 10. One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. Verse 11. Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. Verse 12. For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, Verse 13. know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. Verse 14. Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed. Verse 15. But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you. Verse 16. If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”

PSALM

Psalm 51:1-12

Verse 1. For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Verse 2. Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Verse 3. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Verse 4. Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.
Verse 5. Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Verse 6. Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Verse 7. Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Verse 8. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
Verse 9. Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
Verse 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Verse 11. Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
Verse 12. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.

Complementary (Track 2)

FIRST READING

Exodus 12:43-13:2

Text not available in the Berean Standard Bible.

PSALM

Psalm 78:23-29

Verse 23. Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
Verse 24. He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
Verse 25. Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.
Verse 26. He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.
Verse 27. He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.
Verse 28. He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
Verse 29. So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved.

SECOND READING

1 Corinthians 11:27-34

Verse 27. Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. Verse 28. Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. Verse 29. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. Verse 30. That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. Verse 31. Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment. Verse 32. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world. Verse 33. So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. Verse 34. If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you come together it will not result in judgment. And when I come, I will give instructions about the remaining matters.